Cooking + Food

Our “why” of Baby Led Weaning is simple: we wanted to eat dinner at the table as a family, letting our baby eat at his own pace, enjoying the full meal experience. (You can find that post here.) The...

Krista and her family lived down the street from us when she was in about first grade. At the time, our kids ranged in age from 5-10 years old. She'd often come down to play in "the kingdom," an...

“Embrace the chaos,” they said. “This is only a season,” they said. I have spent weeks, if not months, embracing and reevaluating our “chaos.”  Overcommitments, scheduled weekends, the plague (okay, the flu, forgive my exaggeration), board meetings, OT and kid's...

I want to be that mom chasing her child through the yard, the mom hiking through a local state park with a baby on her back, or even just the mom that makes it home at the end of...

It's summertime and school is out! For moms, that means the kids are home and they're HUNGRY. As if meal planning, grocery shopping/ordering, food prep and cleanup weren't enough on a daily basis, now you also have to contend...

Pre-kids, I had visions of perfectly prepared, kid-friendly meals, loaded with fruits and veggies, with kids joyfully devouring every vitamin-packed morsel. Six years and three kids later, meal time is easily one of my most dreaded times of the day,...

I feel like a walking commercial for BLW: my tagline could be “So easy, a baby can do it. Literally. “ But really. The work we put in as a family for a short time around 6 months old...

*This series is intended to help bring ideas to support food education, and wellness in families; it is not intended to diagnose, treat or cure diseases.  Please always consult your practitioners if you have questions or concerns.  Article 1...

Please don't call me,"Supermom!" I have been called by this title from several well-meaning individuals. It may sound like a compliment; but in reality is sets unrealistic expectations for me, as well as for other moms who might think that...

To be completely honest, I never pictured myself actually feeding my baby. I knew it was something I wanted to do, and I read enough about it to know why I thought I wanted to do it, but I...